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ACC Announces Outdoor Track & Field Awards April 24, 2008
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Clemson's Travis Padgett and Miami's Kristy Whyte have been selected as the Atlantic Coast Conference Men's and Women's Most Valuable Track Performers for the 2008 Outdoor Track & Field season, respectively, as determined by a vote of the league's 12 head coaches. Padgett, also the league's Indoor Track MVP, and Florida State's Kim Williams, who was named Indoor Freshman of the Year earlier in the year, were the league's only two student-athletes to win awards for both the Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field seasons. The Tigers' Padgett, a junior native of Shelby, N.C., earned his second ACC individual track title of the year with a win in the 100-meter dash at last weekend's ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Atlanta, Ga. Padgett, who also was victorious in the 60-meter dash at the 2008 ACC Indoor Track & Field Championships in February, went on to finish second in the 200-meter dash, and then to run the final leg of the Tigers' champion 4X100-meter relay team. He is currently the only student-athlete in league history to earn three titles in the men's 100-meter dash. Whyte, who hails from Pembroke Pines, Fla., was the only student-athlete to earn three overall titles at the 2008 ACC Outdoor Championships. After taking top honors and running the league's fastest time of 2008 in the 100-meter dash, the sophomore sprinter ran a 23.48 200-meter dash to earn first-place and become the first athlete since 2003 to take the top spot in both the women's 100 and 200. She then took part in both Miami's 4X100- and 4X400-meter relay teams, which finished first and second, respectively. Earning the men's and women's ACC Most Valuable Field Performer of the Year awards were Georgia Tech's James Lemons and Florida State's Kim Williams, respectively. Lemons, a senior out of Atlanta, Ga., successfully defended his 2007 triple-jump title this year and also finished third in the long jump, while Williams took the individual championships in both the women's long- and triple-jump events.
A first year Seminole from Kingston, Jamaica, Williams also was named the ACC's Freshman of the Year on the women's side. Earning the league's Freshman of the Year award for the men is North Carolina's Charles Cox. Cox, from Tinton Falls, N.J., finished first overall in the 400-meter dash, fifth in the 200-meter dash, and participated on the Tar Heels' third-place 4X400-meter relay team. Earning his fourth-straight ACC Coach of the Year award on the women's side is Virginia Tech's Dave Cianelli. Cianelli, who has guided the Hokies to two straight Indoor and Outdoor women's team championships, has been named the league's top coach for both seasons in each of the last two years. Clemson men's head coach Bob Pollock, whose Tigers finished second at this year's title meet, was voted Men's Coach of the Year. Pollock, who last won the award in 2004, has now been named the league's top men's coach nine times in his career.
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